Alaska
________autumn bouquet of, 1
________robin’s egg sky of, 2
________superiority to Lower 48 of, 1-413
Baldwin, Alec
________preference for Stephen over, 314
Biden, Joe
________gaffes of, 278
________pre-debate stretching regimen of, 296
________accidental reference to as “Sen. O’Biden,” 289
blinking, not, 198
Blitzer, Wolf
________approval of mother of, 351
________implicit disapproval of, 351
Builder, Tito the, 305
Bono, nondescript conversation with, 301
books and magazines, references to
________A Conflict of Vision, 385
________Animal Farm, 27
________Buck, Pearl S., 180
________Bible, the, 15
________cookbooks, 15
________Lewis, C.S., 27
________Nash, Ogden, 15
________National Geographic, 27
________Pearl, The, 27
________Ranger Rick, 27
________Reader’s Digest, 15
________Seagull, Jonathan Livingston, 27
________Service, Robert, 15
________Sports Illustrated, 27
________Wonderful World of Oz, The, 16
cap and trade
________brilliant suggested renaming of as “Cap and Tax,” 390
________characterization of as “environmentalist Ponzi scheme,” 391
capital letters, unorthodox use of
________"Patriots,” dedication page
Clinton, Hillary
________invitation to coffee with, 287
________whining of, 287
Community organizing, actual responsibility lackingness of, 65, 242
Couric, Katie
________"repetitive, biased questions” of, 271
________unfair editing of interview with, 273
________condescension of, 276
________things I could/should have said to, 274-5
________things I could have done instead of talking to, 279
crowds
________unexpected size of, 266
________insistence on lingering with, despite objections from campaign staffers, 268
debate, vice presidential
________poorness of preparation for, 281-85
________answers they made me give during, 281
________answers I wanted to give during, 282
________wink during, N/A
“Democrat,” usage of as adjective, 155, 227
dialogue, implausibly recreated, 2, 53, 74, 151, 161, 179, 188, 217, 235, 318, 358, 375
diet
________forced by Steve Schmidt to go on, 284
________Steve Schmidt needs to go on, 285
eBay
________attempted selling of jet on, 147
________fudging of original claim that I did sell jet on, 147

e-mail, hacking of, 263-65
exclamation point, usage of, 4, 26, 120, 121, 122, 138, 150, 199, 207, 222, 223, 225, 233, 239, 241, 276, 302, 307
evolution
________skeptical views of, 217
________________use of word “Neanderthal” despite, 30, 172
“experts,” wrongness of, 254, 289, 336, 375, 392
Facebook
________citation of as example of laudable free-market enterprise, 400
________utility of for calling out haters, 400

Many in the US corporate media have hailed “progressive” the choice of Sarah Palin by John McCain as his vice presidential running mate. Women workers are being told that they “finally have someone to vote for!” But even the most cursory glance at Palin[] is enough to show that she [is a monkey smuggler], and is [really a man].

NB: Brackets indicate paraphrases.

Yea. Look at those pallets of $100 bills. Wow. I bet that money was free. It happened during Bush so it couldn’t have been taxpayer money.

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. “The numbers are so large that it doesn’t seem possible that they’re true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?”

So… did we loose this money? You could argue that we paid for a temporary peace for PR reasons, in order to account for SOME of the cash, but then it’d cut against your ‘freedom and democracy’ narrative about Iraq. Decisions decisions…

Also, I think a ‘tonne’ is two ‘tons’. Anyone know the deal with the British ‘tonnes’?

A 33-year-old Jackson man accused of growing marijuana in his apartment could get up to life in prison if convicted.

In the case of Ronald Christopher Sekul, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics intends to ask prosecutors to apply a law called the “kingpin” statute, MBN Director Marshall Fisher said.

The statute can be applied to Sekul’s case because he allegedly had a drug operation for longer than 12 consecutive months and had more than 10 pounds of marijuana, Fisher said.

Sekul was arrested Wednesday for allegedly growing 4-foot marijuana plants in the back bedroom of the fourplex he lives in at 1510 Myrtle St., according to MBN.

He is out of jail on $50,000 bond.

“It was a pretty sophisticated operation,” Fisher said.

And I thought I had cool neighbors! WOah.

We don’t?

Should we?

What should we make it?

Esperanto?